Caucus News

Sacramento, CA – Senate Majority Leader Mike McGuire has been working with the City of Clearlake, Lake County Supervisors Sabatier and Simon and local water districts to secure state funding that will once and for all establish an intertie between a few water districts near the City of Clearlake.

Senator Josh Becker announced legislation today to establish the Minor League Baseball Players’ Bill of Rights, which would modernize decades’ old and scathingly criticized work conditions for Minor Leaguers. “Baseball is called America’s pastime and Minor Leaguers are just asking for what every American worker wants,” said Senator Becker, D-Peninsula. “These players are asking for fair treatment and the opportunity to make a decent living under decent conditions.

SACRAMENTO – Legislation advanced today from Sen. Bill Dodd, D-Napa to boost his previous relief for struggling restaurants and bars by expanding provisions of his 2021 law allowing the sale and delivery of to-go cocktails.

SACRAMENTO – A pair of bills from Sen. Bill Dodd, D-Napa, that would both assist California in planning for clean, distributed energy sources and improve the reliability of the existing electricity grid cleared a key committee today. Senate Bill 833, the Community Energy Resilience Act, and SB 839, Sen. Dodd’s energy-demand response bill, advanced with overwhelming support.

After hearings conducted by both the California state Assembly and Senate budget committees, SB 118, a budget trailer bill that will safeguard student enrollment at UC Berkeley and prevent student enrollment from being treated as a separate project under CEQA, passed the Legislature unanimously today.

SB 118 remedies the court-issued cap on UC Berkeley’s enrollment for this fall, while preserving the requirement that long-range development plans of California’s public higher education campuses be fully reviewed for their environmental impacts.

SACRAMENTO – Senate President pro Tempore Toni G. Atkins (D-San Diego) released the following statement today regarding the Senate’s approval of SB 118, a bill that addresses environmental review of California’s public higher education campuses’ long-term development plans, and Senator Skinner’s commitment to helping future UC Berkeley students.

SONOMA – Sen. Bill Dodd, D-Napa, will host a virtual town hall March 22 on insurance access and affordability featuring California State Insurance Commissioner Ricardo Lara.

The town hall will be streamed live over multiple channels and broadcast on KSVY Sonoma. Sen. Dodd and his guests will take questions via email and phone. The call-in line phone number is below.

Sacramento, CA – Senator Portantino welcomed news from Governor Newsom today for the availability of a $50,000 reward for information regarding the murder of Iran Moreno, in hope that it will bring to justice the person who committed the murder of the young boy.

Los Angeles, CA -- With California gas prices topping $5 to $7 per gallon, California State Senator Ben Allen joined with consumer advocates today to announce new legislation that will require oil refiners to disclose once a month the price they pay for crude oil and the profit margins they make on the gasoline they refine and sell.SB 1322 (Allen), the California Oil Refinery Cost Disclosure Act, will allow Californians to finally know how much the big five oil refiners in the state are profiting from each gallon of gasoline they sell.

Los Angeles, CA -- With California gas prices topping $5 to $7 per gallon, California State Senator Ben Allen joined with consumer advocates today to announce new legislation that will require oil refiners to disclose once a month the price they pay for crude oil and the profit margins they make on the gasoline they refine and sell.SB 1322 (Allen), the California Oil Refinery Cost Disclosure Act, will allow Californians to finally know how much the big five oil refiners in the state are profiting from each gallon of gasoline they sell.